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Frank wrote:…Arse Magica…

Why do I get the sense that that was both a typo and not a typo at the same time!?

Awesome.

In low magic, the heroes typically aren't superhuman. I mean there are rare occasions, like Hercules and such, but most of the time, you're talking about fairly mundane, though highly skilled, humans. [br][br]Then skills themselves have to do something. And they have to do badass things by just sit...

I like the idea of all PCs being spellcasters. By definition, then, that's why they're the heroes. You just have to figure out enough variants that the PCs don't end up being all samey and junk. Some suggestions:[br][br] [br] Wizard: Book learnin' magician. From the East.[br] Voodoun: Ritual magic m...

No, you shouldn't.[br][br]Instead, your campaigns should just end at whatever level you think the power curve extends too far. When a campaign ends at level 20, that's as completely arbitrary as ending it at level 5. Just because the charts all go that high doesn't mean you have to play that high. I...

If the rules don't say you can't do something, you can.

"I can make chickens into killer cyborgs!"
"When I cry, my teardrops are liquid gold!"
"I can hit you in the eye with my pee from 6 miles away!"

Yeah, that manifesto makes no sense.

I'm a Spycraft fan. My name's as a playtester 2.0 and the Dark Inheritance setting, and I have an "additional writing" credit in the 1.0 supplement Masterminds . They don't employ me or anything, but I am a total Spycraft fanboy.[br][br]I'm gonna address Frank's concerns about the channele...

Punching bad thoughts, ofcourse, is not something you do with strength. As I'm sure you know.

Well, now.

Darn it. All that effort… wasted.

What the bloody hell?

The newer editions of D&D are not broken. but they are excedingly more complex.

Has this guy ever actually read the 1E DMG? What was it Cecil called it? "All the joys of double-entry accounting with none of that boring 'fun' stuff thrown in"?

The outright, willful refusal to address many of the issues brought up here (such as "The fighter is a fine class," "How much is a feat worth? Who knows!" and "No one will actually ever use fabricate , major creation , magic jar , astral spell or any of those other things an...

Oh great joy within the first few posts we get the dreaded, "Why do old people in D&D see & hear better?"

…And it hits the Oberoni Fallacy by a near-record third post.

The Geisha [br]Oh, God. Hah hah hah… boo hoo boo hoo.[br][br]I think that thread epitomizes this thread's title. A weak base class vs. historical accuracy vs. flavor text vs. an almost katanas r teh awesum -level of crap.[br][br]Wow. Did you guys know the Japanese make some pretty cool funny books?...

Force all mankind to work together in the face of an implaccable foe. World peace and understanding with only 500 million dead.

So sayeth Moore and Gibbons's The Watchmen.

You could do the same with chess. [br][br]Yes, exactly, and that would be easy. But chess doesn't use terrain, and chess pieces don't differ in abilities depending on how they look.[br][br] People like having models, thats totally enough reason to build, paint and convert stuff. [br][br]I'm good wi...

Real quick:[br] If your modeling for advantage in game, your being exploitative. [br]Seriously, why else would you even bother to model except for tactical advantage? If the model's physicality ceases to be an issue, can't you just use cardboard chits with numbers on them and push them around the ga...

If you don't mind saying, for what class and level? High school, college, post-graduate? How much research are you expected to do? How long is the presentation to be? What AV resources does the presentation space command?[br][br]The short version: Go totally extreme. Commit to something utterly and ...

Although this is doable from a computer RPG standpoint, I'm pretty sure it's not viable on a tabletop.[br][br]You're talking thousands of schticks.[br][br]In a computer game, I can see having the Mystic archetype and getting the Cast Basic Spells and the Whack Monsters with Staff schticks to start a...

Haven't seen new spycraft yet. What does it do that's good? [br][br][*] Monsters are parts: There's a big list of special abilities that can be given to an NPC. The baseline NPC has, like, 10 stats that determine it's XP value and special abilities increase that. An NPC takes about a 100-word parag...

Since they will be enemies, at no point in the campaign will the characters be in the same room.

Whoah. Ambitious.

Utterly funless and stupid, but ambitious.

You'll need to totally rewrite the spell system from scratch.… And rewrite all the magic items. And rewrite all the monsters. And yeah, that's far too much work for anyone sane to care about doing. [br][br]Except the folks in charge of Crafty Games's Spycraft 2.0 , which has done two of the three, ...

Ima gonna makes you dumb:[br][br] also when they get improved evasion they do oblirate spell-casters because even if they felled ther save they still only take half damage[br]classes that dont have evasion make a sucsseful save and they still take half damage[br][br]plus with the right combo of feat...

More stick figure goodness. Quite old, however.

The Warriors Three. Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. The Avengers (and everything after). The Justice League (ad everything after). Stormwatch (and everything after). Lone Ranger and Tonto. The Shadow and his minions. Indiana Jones and his assorted sidekicks (most strikingly in …and the Last Crusade ...

I kind of like the idea of getting 6 action units* during a round and being able to divide them any way you want. Say, as follows:[br][br] [br]1 Swift action[br]2.5 Move-equivalent action[br]3 Standard action[br]5 Full action[br]6 One-turn action (NEW!)[br] [br][br]…Or whatever. It has merit and add...

Also a lot of D&D text plays out a lot like a story, and I'm just automatically more interested in stories about women.

I hope I'm not alone in having initially read that as anatomically.

know tons of people would be elated to pretty much have their taxes already done for them, though it would be a monstrous kick in the nuts to the tax preparation industry (both software companies and seasonal offices). [br][br]It's my understanding that you can, pretty much, already do this--in the...